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Opinion: On marijuana, legalization the far better choice Stanley Garnett FacebookTwitterEmail The interior of a medical marijuana dispensary that opened in Connecticut in 2016.File photo My experience as a prosecutor in Colorado before, during and after marijuana legalization has led me to conclude that legalization and regulation is a far better approach than criminalization. After nearly 30 years as a trial lawyer, including four as a deputy district attorney in Denver, I was elected the district attorney for Colorado’s 20th Judicial District (Boulder County) in 2008. I took office one w...

Letter for burke. he was going to go with my brother. we signed the papers to do that. >> finally the d.a. came forward with the long awaited news. >> the boulder grand jury has completed its work. no charges have been filed. >> the headlines said it all, the nation was stumped. john and patsy ramsey would not be charged and neither would anyone else. >> i think there was a collective feeling of, oh, no, we're never going to know who murdered this little girl. >> a decade after jonbenet's murder, tragedy struck the family again. patsy died after a long battle with cancer. she is buried next to...

>> the grand jury decision 14 years earlier was not as it had been portrayed. jurors had actually voted to charge john and patsy ramsey. brennan wanted to get ahold of the grand jury's decision, himself. he went to court. >> i don't think most of us could believe it. he won and they unsealed those grand jury records in 2013, and it was quite illuminating. >> 17 years after jonbenet's murder, the court released four true bills or written decisions from the grand jury. the jury recommended indicting john and patsy ramsey for child abuse resulting in death and accessory to first-degree murder. >>...

The family of the child beauty queen jonbenet ramsey -- >> new touch dna evidence was found by guessing where jonbenet's killer handled her pajama bottoms. forensic scientist angela williamson led the work. >> whoever committed this offense pulled down her long johns then pulled them back up because she was found dressed. >> technicians tested on both sides of the long johns waistband. >> it's the same dna. it's the same male that's in the underpants that's on the side of the long johns. >> tests a decade apart revealed the same unknown male on two pieces of jonbenet's clothing. this led to on...

Note. the ramseys had submitted multiple handwriting samples. >> john's definitively was cleared >> yours was not? >> mine scored 4.5 out of 5. 5 is no match. >> there are investigators who say patsy ramsey could not be excluded as an author. it's very subjective. >> three months after jonbenet's murder, police were no closer to an arrest. the d.a. made a bold move, hiring veteran homicide detective lou schmidt. >> perhaps at first i leaned towards the parents doing it, but as i got into the case i started seeing red flags which started pointing the other way. >> the case took on a whole new t...